The next novel really digs into the Artaud-Desnos story: Artaud’s Theater of Cruelty and The Cenci, the Desnos-Foujita-Youki triangle, Artaud’s break with Lise Deharme, Desnos going with Artaud to get a steel tip for his cane, Artaud’s trip to Mexico and his eventual incarceration. It will be long – a good 500 pages – andContinue reading “The Next Novel: Theater of Cruelty”
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L’Étoile de Mer – Book Two!
L’Étoile de Mer (The Starfish), the sequel to Traitor Comet, is at the publisher and will come out this year! This is book two in my novel series on the lives and friendship of Antonin Artaud and Robert Desnos. Again, the title was inspired by a work by Desnos.
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From Book 3: Guernica
In April the German air force, commanded by Colonel Wolfram von Richthofen, bombed the town of Guernica in Spain which was the center of Basque culture and also the northern bastion of the Republican resistance movement. The two-hour assault by a squadron of Junkers warplanes leveled the town. The young men were away fightingContinue reading “From Book 3: Guernica”
From Book 2: In Total Darkness
February days turned grey with rain. Trapped inside, I fled the café scene for Louis’s small apartment. We spent a great deal of time together, for the two of us were seeing very little of our other friends lately. “We’re the only people who aren’t successful,” Louis joked, “or failing successfully.” Justine modeledContinue reading “From Book 2: In Total Darkness”
From Book 2: Escaping the Police
Hands tore at me and I threw my fists out blindly, making contact with eyes and cheeks. The air cleared and I crawled onstage. Now Breton was nowhere to be seen. I hauled Desnos up by the arm. Holding his handkerchief against the flow of blood, Desnos stumbled in the direction I shoved himContinue reading “From Book 2: Escaping the Police”
From Book 2: Saint-Pol-Roux’s Banquet
One evening, while Catherine sat with Suzanne in the dining room planning a supper for our father’s birthday, Franz on the sofa sheepishly unfolded a few old newspaper articles he’d saved. “This should interest you,” he whispered. “Surrealism’s biggest public scandal.” We sat quietly together to read them. The event was an honorary banquetContinue reading “From Book 2: Saint-Pol-Roux’s Banquet”
From Book 1: Teacher’s Pet
Buy book one, Traitor Comet! “How can you keep track of so many people?” I asked. I was already thinking how I could devise a deck of cards to remember them all. Soupault, with his lamppost, was the ace, and Desnos was the joker, of course. I figured Artaud for the king, Péret for theContinue reading “From Book 1: Teacher’s Pet”
Antonin Artaud and Robert Desnos 